- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
- Impatient
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- Nov 07, 2020
But we moderns are impatient and destructive.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.
- Nonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
- Exactly The Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
- Critic
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- Nov 07, 2020